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Our great NC senator..lil dickie burr, the manly fellow, co chairs this disaster. FReepers will recall his role in the open borders/total amnesty fiasco.
Lead to Combat Climate Change
40 We will lead to defeat the epochal, man- made threat to the planet: climate change. 41 Without dramatic changes, rising sea levels will flood coastal regions around the world, 42 including much of the eastern seaboard. Warmer temperatures and declining rainfall will 43 reduce crop yields, increasing conflict, famine, disease, and poverty. By 2050, famine 44 could displace more than 250 million people worldwide. That means increased instability 45 in some of the most volatile parts of the world.
Never again will we sit on the sidelines, or stand in the way of collective action to tackle 2 this global challenge. Getting our own house in order is only a first step. We will invest 3 in efficient and clean technologies at home while using our assistance policies and export 4 promotions to help developing countries curb deforestation and leapfrog the carbon5 energy-intensive stage of development.
According to a study on greenhouse gas emissions from fire, the Angora fire was estimated to have emitted 46.2 tons of greenhouse gases per acre. (http://www.calforestfoundation.org/pdf/FCEM-2.pdf ) The EPA estimates that an average car driven 15,000 miles annually produces 6.5 tons of carbon emissions annually. The study also indicated that if thinning, reduction of ladder and other fuels had been done in the forests where the Angora fires occurred, emissions could have been dropped to 12 tons per acre, instead of 46.2.
Personally, I think the measured steps that should be taken include an agressive program of fuel reduction in our western National Forests. That one thing would have a huge impact on emissions released every year by the huge wildfires that are ocurring. They should start with creating a defensible profile around forest communities and then move on to the landscape level. The proceeds from merchantable timber that is thinned in the process can be used to offset the costs. Intitally, the costs would be high, but would eventually level off at a much lower level accompanied by decreasing costs for firefighting.
Victory so close, yet so far. Stupidity wins every time.
Let them walk it then.
...Just when I think that I can get drunk enough to vote for this idiot....
No if they have even half a brain..
And the alternative is what? To let a full-bore socialist like Obama gain access to the most important job in the world? Very few Freepers are doing handstands about McCain being the Pubbie candidate. A lot of his positions, like the global warming one, make me want to pull the hair out of my head. But we have two options: a moderate Republican or a far-left socialist. Not a difficult choice.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
The Great Global Warming Swindle Video - back on the net!! (click here)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
McKennedy barely got my vote back (from no vote for either idiot) after his slaughtering of the Obamaloon. However, if this is in the Repub’s platform, at least I’ll not have to waste time voting in November.
A strong argument for voting Democratic, except the Democratic greenhouse gas platform (and its candidate) are infinitely worse.
Q: What is the difference between Al Gore and a bag of fertilizer?
A: The bag.
Global Warming Gone [Stephen Spruiell] National Review
As promised, the Republican platform subcommittee on energy took up the global-warming section of the 2008 draft about an hour ago. Long story short: It’s now a very different document. I’ll have more after I’ve had a chance to talk to some of the participants in the debate. To give you an idea of how drastically the document changed, consider the first amendment the subcommittee took up, which passed:
The section was titled, “Global Warming and Environmental Protection.” Now it’s just, “Environmental Protection.”
08/26 02:19 PM
Platform Committee: No Ethanol Mandates [Stephen Spruiell]
The last sentence in the economy section of the working draft of the Republican platform states, “The U.S. government should end mandates for ethanol and let the free market work.” In full committee, the co-chairman of the energy subcommittee attempted to strip the sentence from the economy section, arguing that statements on biofuel policy properly belong in the energy section.
Delegate after delegate spoke in turn against stripping the statement out. “This is a free-market issue,” Jeff Grossman of Oregon argued. Grossman said that when the latest round of ethanol mandates kicked in, food prices in Oregon went up and gas mileage went down. Several of his colleagues echoed his complaints.
Only one delegate defended ethanol mandates out of seven or eight who spoke. Strong Republican-Party opposition to ethanol mandates is new. President Bush still supports the mandated consumption of ethanol, which was enacted by a Republican Congress in 2005 and increased by a Democratic Congress with Republican support in 2007.
After so many of his colleagues spoke out against his amendment, the energy subcommittee co-chair respectfully withdrew it, and the statement stayed in the platform.
08/26 05:52 PM
Oh For the Love... [Stephen Spruiell]
The Republican platform committee just added language supporting the Internet gambling ban. Several delegates, notably Carmen Amedori of Maryland, offered sound conservative defenses of the platform’s authors’ decision to drop the ban from the working draft, but an amendment to add it back passed resoundingly.
08/26 06:26 PM
That would be the last straw!
After 50 years of being registered Republican, voting for Republicans, and spending 18 years on the State Central Committee, and runing for the State Assemblu at the partys request, i’ll be changing my registration.
The Republican has gone to hell!
The RNC Meets to Draft Their Platform: Sparks Fly on the Issue of Illegal Immigration
by Shushannah Walshe
Well of course it will! Every other liberal agenda has been shoved down our throats by McCain so no one should be surprised.....
Unfortunately there are too many BHObama haters in the democratic party who are going to vote for McLame than McLame haters who will either stay home or vote third party. I suspect McLame knows this so thats why he is confident that while his liberal policies will piss off the real conservatives, he could care less because of the BHO's who are going to cross over........
Global warming may or may not be a reality.
What is reality, is that we have absolutely no means available to us to alter either the course of warming or cooling. We may only adapt to the conditions as they arise.
It’s getting hotter? Change the distribution of crops that are grown, from tropical areas to what were once more temperate zones. Move the more temperate-zone crops to what was formerly the Arctic. Put plant geneticists to work in adapting plants to produce under conditions much hotter than is now common in the tropics.
Whoops, called the trends in climate change wrong? Then stand by with the development and propagation of plant life that can endure and thrive under the new, changed, colder conditions, like growing winter wheat in Georgia or Alabama.
Conditions overly dry? Then use desalination methods to convert sea water, in HUGE quantities, to sweet, potable water, fit for human (and plant) consumption, and pipe it inland, to make deserts bloom.
Conditions overly wet, and subject to monsoon-like rain patterns? Then grow plants adapted to these conditions already, like rice and sugar cane, to feed the millions grown dependent on the nutrition raised from the soil.
In every one of these various projections, you shall note that I have mentioned plants as the underlying solution to the problems raised by global climate change. Plants, and their ability to adapt to the changing conditions, are our complement in securing viability on this planet. Carbon dioxide is the medium through which the energy falling upon this planet each and every day is converted to that huge storehouse of sequestered energy within carbon-based life forms. Take the carbon dioxide out of the equation, and soon, plants die. As plants die, paradoxically, they decompose once again into - carbon dioxide. This restores the slim balance of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, so plants STOP dying.
The reality is, that no matter how aggressively we try to either INCREASE carbon dioxide, the growth of young, green plants will greedily reabsorb it, and if we manage, somehow, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by human effort, it will mean exactly squat in terms of how much carbon dioxide is produced by non-anthropogenic means.
But taxation to prevent the “consequences” of global warming is a wonderful club to wave over the heads of those who are non-compliant with the dictates of the “smarter” people.
In 2000, Al Gore spoke of “risky schemes” in addressing some of the policies that George W. Bush advocated. This is probably one of the “riskiest schemes” yet perpetrated upon the human species by other humans. First, because it never addresses the problem at which it pretends to be directed, and secondly, by diverting so many of the resources of the world, almost guarantees we fall into some other much more nettlesome and deadly trap of our own making.
Poverty, and especially self-induced poverty, is no way to go through life.
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
Spending trillions to fix a problem that doesn't exist is insanity.
It's going to be hard not to raise taxes while spending trillions too.
Might as well put a pro-illegal immigration plank in.